Could Freddy Vs Jason 2 Still Work In 2022?

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Almost 20 years after the original Freddy Vs Jason was released, there remain question marks over whether a sequel to the Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchise's face-off could work. Freddy Vs Jason was not critically acclaimed upon release in 2003. Although some reviewers found director Ronny Yu’s slasher comedy to be a reasonably fun romp, Freddy Vs Jason was accused of being an overly-familiar retread of both franchise’s gory glory days, according to critical consensus.

However, for the Nightmare On Elm Street andFriday the 13th franchises, a return to formula was no bad thing. Jason X had recently proven that taking Camp Crystal Lake’s mute, monstrous killer to space was not enough to revive interest in the ailing series, while the very existence of shock rocker Alice Cooper’s Freddy’s Dead cameo proves that later sequels had strayed far from what made the original Nightmare On Elm Street work. As such, the familiar elements of Freddy Vs Jason’s formula were a lot of what made the movie so successful in relation to their two franchises.

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Almost twenty years later, there has been no recent word of a potential Freddy Vs Jason sequel. The sequel’s delays were initially chalked up to a range of issues, from the muted critical reception of Freddy Vs Jason to Robert Englund no longer playing Freddy Krueger — all prior to the legal quagmire that theFriday the 13th series became embroiled in. However, the question of whether Freddy Vs Jason 2 would even work in 2022 is also worth considering. Much like a Friday the 13th franchise reboot could ironically be better off without Jason Voorhees as its central villain, cancelingFreddy Vs